Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" inquiry.
I'm always curious as to what Freepers are reading and what they're recommending to others.
It can be anything...a classic novel, a scientific journal, a magazine, a cheap pulp novel...anything.
Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading "The Great Deluge: Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast" by Douglas Brinkley.
This is a full account of Katrina striking the Gulf Coast. The book starts 48 hours before landfall and finishes one week after landfall. It a very good book.
Trust me, no one comes out of this looking good. Ray Nagin doesn't. FEMA doesn't, etc.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
Quick question re: Follet’s new book. I have it, and I have been waiting to reread Pilars first (it has been ten or twelve years). Any reason to read Pillars again first? or should I just dive into World without End with a hazy memory of Pillars?
Just finished
“Crashing Through” - Robert Kurson
“Wonderful Tonight” - Pattie Boyd
“Clapton: The Autobiography” - Eric Clapton
Just starting
“The Looming Tower” - Lawrence Wright
Oh my...
Did I “deface” this thread?
And here I was thinking this was just another web forum and not a work of art worthy of the Louvre.
Please feel free to erase the mustache on this otherwise perfect painting...
Jean Shepherd?
You could shoot your eye out.
Edward R. Tufte.
Can’t see that name without thinking of his essay “Powerpoint is Evil”.
The Road to Serfdom (abridged online version)
By F. A. Hayak.
I just finished My Grandfather’s Son. Excellent.
I have found that I cannot doze off while I am reading it as I might do with other books. It seems as though every paragraph could be fodder for discussion. I hope to finish it tonight so that I can lend it to my mother tomorrow.
In Cold Blood is Capote’s seminal work. Although some critics lambaste it for the less than objective portrayal of Perry Smith, I find that these critics exagerrate/misstate the supposed “tender” relationship between the two.
ON another note-The original flick directed by Richard Brooks with Robert Blake as Perry is superior to the more recent film version of the murders, Capote, which is more concerned with Capote the writer.
I felt the same way!
Not a criticism, but one narrative that I feel he glosses over (and I respect his need for privacy on the matter) is the reason for his failed relationship with his first wife.
“Forever Odd” by Dean Koontz
I started out by reading the Smoke Jensen books. In one he said that if one lawyer lived in a town, he starved but if another one moved in, both got rich. He sure was a conservative writer who had his own ideas about justice. If anyone has not read the Ashes books, you owe it to yourself to read them starting with Out of the Ashes. It sets the stage for all of the others.
Presently I am reading "Out There" by Diane Fanning, the only book I have found on Lisa Nowak.
Next in line is "Power to the People" by Laura Ingraham.
Nah, I wouldn’t go back and read Pillars again, the new book stands on its own. It is a good book though.
No, he kills! lol
Just finished one non-fiction book: Ex-Friends by Norman Podhoretz and one fiction: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. They were both very good and I recommend them. Now I’m catching up on my Chronicles magazines as I’m two months behind.
“Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Worth reading. Just finished it about a month ago.
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